Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

via Pilot Point TO Gainesville and ia in
tended TO give the Houston ard Teyas
central an outlet north and east over the
Santa Fe. 1t will run through a ricS
farming region and will add greatly 10
fGalnesTille's business. Hesdousrters
Will be in this city.
THE GAINESVILLE AND soTTTuURsTvpn-
no steps have as vet been taken tn
build this proposed line, but railroad men
are now taking hold of it and it is prob
able that 1t will at an early day ne buiIt
1t is contemplated to build il rom
Gainesville via DeCa ", in Wise county.
to WeatEerford. The Missouri Pacific
| is DESTROYS Of reaching the coal mines
near Decssur, and there is also a rich
section of agricultural country that IL
would develop.
PUBLIC BEILDTNGS.
Gainesville has the usual county bUild-
ings-a handsome stone courthouse and q
substantial brick jail. The Courthouse
was built IN 1873, at G cost Of S95. OGO.
and IS beautiful and substantial bniId3
ing. The city hall was bailt in lSS4.at q
cost Of $4,000. It is fne sro-storv
brick with tall tower, situated On Dixon
street, one block from the courthouse
square. 1t contains the offices Of the
mayor, recorder, MARSHAL, collector and
city secretary. The lower story is used
Tor prison and the IRE department.
OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT
is Wei organized and supplied with new
and latest improved apparatus; it has
paid tremen, who are in readiness n chi
and dag.
WATERW c7KS.
nm
pleted. They are what is known IS TIE
Holly system. The water is forced al.
reCtly from the pumps through the Mains.
and pressure can be had sufficient to
throw five streams at once to height OF
100 feet. Water is obtained from the
Eli Fork Of the Trinity river and is clear
and pure. The works are frst-ciass in
every particular and furnish our citizens
with good water for home use, as
well as ample protection srs!nst
fire. On sccount of our splendid water
works, Gainesville is rated as { tirst-Clsss
city by the state board Of underwriters.
The works hare the capacity to supply =
city of so, 900 Inhabitants.
SCHOOLS AND sCHOoLHOUsRe.
Perhaps no place of its size in the na-
ton can excel Gainesville in schools. Cur
system is one of the most complete and
efficient to be found anywhere, The
schools are under the management of the
board of trustees, who are elected by the
city council. They are conducted by Q
superintendent, assisted by g corps OF
nineteen teachers. The superintendent
has g salary of $500 per snnum, while
the pay Of tse teachers range from 250.to
$50 per month. There are three hand
some brick schColh0use buildings CON-
pleted and fourth IS being built.
The Lindsay schooIhouse In the south
ern portion OF the city was the 1lrst
erected. 1t is 4 neat two-story brick,
we'll built and conveniently arranged It
will accommodate about 500 pupils.
The BeIcher schooihouse is situated IN
the northern portion Of the city, and Is
one of the most handsome schoolhouses
III the state Il Will accommodate about
900 pupils.
The Third ward schooIhouse, for the
negroes, is 4 new building lust completed
in the western part of the city. 1t is an
elegant tw9-stOry brick, and will accom-
modate 500 pupils.
The Fourth ward sChoolh0Use in the
eastern postlon of the city is now being
built. 1t will, when completed, be the
most handsome and convenient one of all.
1t will be two stores of brick with stone
basement beneath, with heating apparatus
and all the modern conveniences. It will
be ready for use the approaching session.
Our school buildings cost about SIS, 900
and have been very economically built.
Tuition is free 10 all the children of the
city within the scholastic age, running
from six to eighteen years.
We have q number of handsome and
well built churches. We name the South
srn Methodist church, handsome frame
building; the First Presbyterian church
20. s., also neat frame building; the
Christian church, good frame building;
q Catholic church, nice frame struc-
ture, with priests home attached; =
John's Methodist Episcopal church,
neat brick building; the Cumberland
PRESBYTERIAN church, new and hand
someIV finished and furnished brick build
ing; the First Baptist church, large and
neat brick building, with baptistry
connected: st. Paul's Episcopal church,
one of the hsEdsomegt brick church edi-
fees IN the state, and three cO,ored
church buildings, two Methodist and one
Baptist-handsome houses.
We have an opera house that has here
tofore answered all purposes. IL has
been graced by such celebrities as Fred
Ward, Charlotte Thompson, Kate ClaZ-
ton, Minnie Palmer and others But
now our people have concluded that 1t is
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